The Sound of Her Laugh
Bri sat on the fire escape with her feet through the railing and a lukewarm beer sweating in her hand, and the whole city breathed around…
Neighbors mature stories
Stories in Mature tagged neighbors, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 21 to 27 minutes. Writers to know: Route of Stone, Garnet Bridge and The Fern Phantom. Readers usually start with “The Sound of Her Laugh” and “The Second Thing”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Neighbors mature stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Second Thing
*This one's for anyone who's ever kept a thing they should have returned, just because it felt too good to give up.
03 Shared Silence at the Rare Bookshelf
Wilma had been looking forward to this evening for three weeks, and she was not going to let a little thing like turning sixty-four make…
04 The Birthday Weather
The chime went off again.
05 The Model's Contract
I signed up for the life drawing class on a Tuesday, mostly because my sister wouldn't shut up about me having no hobbies.
06 The Cartographer’s Trade
The gallery was one of those converted bank buildings downtown, all marble and tall windows, and I only went because the archive society…
07 The Cookbook Dare
I was elbow deep in a box of somebody's dead aunt's paperbacks when Cari pulled the cookbook out of a crate of church donations.
08 The Birthday Lesson
The quarterly reports had gone soft on me.
09 Eclipse at the Overlook
I locked the register at six and looked at the clock.
10 The Wager at Dunemouth
The tourists left Dunemouth in the middle of October, and by the first week of November the town had gone quiet in a way that took some…
11 The Cleanup Job
I'm Brianna Bradford, forty-five years old, and I've been a firefighter for nineteen years.